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2024-03-25pg_createsubscriber: creates a new logical replica from a standby serverPeter Eisentraut
It must be run on the target server and should be able to connect to the source server (publisher) and the target server (subscriber). All tables in the specified database(s) are included in the logical replication setup. A pair of publication and subscription objects are created for each database. The main advantage of pg_createsubscriber over the common logical replication setup is the initial data copy. It also reduces the catchup phase. Some prerequisites must be met to successfully run it. It is basically the logical replication requirements. It starts creating a publication using FOR ALL TABLES and a replication slot for each specified database. Write recovery parameters into the target data directory and start the target server. It specifies the LSN of the last replication slot (replication start point) up to which the recovery will proceed. Wait until the target server is promoted. Create one subscription per specified database (using publication and replication slot created in a previous step) on the target server. Set the replication progress to the replication start point for each subscription. Enable the subscription for each specified database on the target server. And finally, change the system identifier on the target server. Author: Euler Taveira <euler.taveira@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Shubham Khanna <khannashubham1197@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5ac50071-f2ed-4ace-a8fd-b892cffd33eb@www.fastmail.com
2024-01-11Add new pg_walsummary tool.Robert Haas
This can dump the contents of the WAL summary files found in pg_wal/summaries. Normally, this shouldn't really be something anyone needs to do, but it may be needed for debugging problems with incremental backup, or could possibly be useful to external tools. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmobvqqj-DW9F7uUzT-cQqs6wcVb-Xhs=w=hzJnXSE-kRGw@mail.gmail.com
2023-12-20Add support for incremental backup.Robert Haas
To take an incremental backup, you use the new replication command UPLOAD_MANIFEST to upload the manifest for the prior backup. This prior backup could either be a full backup or another incremental backup. You then use BASE_BACKUP with the INCREMENTAL option to take the backup. pg_basebackup now has an --incremental=PATH_TO_MANIFEST option to trigger this behavior. An incremental backup is like a regular full backup except that some relation files are replaced with files with names like INCREMENTAL.${ORIGINAL_NAME}, and the backup_label file contains additional lines identifying it as an incremental backup. The new pg_combinebackup tool can be used to reconstruct a data directory from a full backup and a series of incremental backups. Patch by me. Reviewed by Matthias van de Meent, Dilip Kumar, Jakub Wartak, Peter Eisentraut, and Álvaro Herrera. Thanks especially to Jakub for incredibly helpful and extensive testing. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYOYZfMCyOXFyC-P+-mdrZqm5pP2N7S-r0z3_402h9rsA@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-26Don't install postmaster symlink anymorePeter Eisentraut
This has long been deprecated. Some of the build systems didn't even install it. Also remove man page. Reviewed-by: Karl O. Pinc <kop@karlpinc.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ece84b69-8f94-8b88-925f-64207cb3a2f0@enterprisedb.com
2022-03-28Add support for MERGE SQL commandAlvaro Herrera
MERGE performs actions that modify rows in the target table using a source table or query. MERGE provides a single SQL statement that can conditionally INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE rows -- a task that would otherwise require multiple PL statements. For example, MERGE INTO target AS t USING source AS s ON t.tid = s.sid WHEN MATCHED AND t.balance > s.delta THEN UPDATE SET balance = t.balance - s.delta WHEN MATCHED THEN DELETE WHEN NOT MATCHED AND s.delta > 0 THEN INSERT VALUES (s.sid, s.delta) WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN DO NOTHING; MERGE works with regular tables, partitioned tables and inheritance hierarchies, including column and row security enforcement, as well as support for row and statement triggers and transition tables therein. MERGE is optimized for OLTP and is parameterizable, though also useful for large scale ETL/ELT. MERGE is not intended to be used in preference to existing single SQL commands for INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE since there is some overhead. MERGE can be used from PL/pgSQL. MERGE does not support targetting updatable views or foreign tables, and RETURNING clauses are not allowed either. These limitations are likely fixable with sufficient effort. Rewrite rules are also not supported, but it's not clear that we'd want to support them. Author: Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com> Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Author: Simon Riggs <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier versions) Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> (earlier versions) Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> (earlier versions) Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com> Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jKitBSrB7oTgT9CY2i1ObfOt36z0XMraQc+Xrz8QB0nXA@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkJdBuxj9PO=2QaO9-3h3xGbQPZ34kJH=HukRekwM-GZg@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201231134736.GA25392@alvherre.pgsql
2021-03-12Add pg_amcheck, a CLI for contrib/amcheck.Robert Haas
This makes it a lot easier to run the corruption checks that are implemented by contrib/amcheck against lots of relations and get the result in an easily understandable format. It has a wide variety of options for choosing which relations to check and which checks to perform, and it can run checks in parallel if you want. Mark Dilger, reviewed by Peter Geoghegan and by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/12ED3DA8-25F0-4B68-937D-D907CFBF08E7@enterprisedb.com Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/BA592F2D-F928-46FF-9516-2B827F067F57@enterprisedb.com
2020-12-28Revert "Add key management system" (978f869b99) & later commitsBruce Momjian
The patch needs test cases, reorganization, and cfbot testing. Technically reverts commits 5c31afc49d..e35b2bad1a (exclusive/inclusive) and 08db7c63f3..ccbe34139b. Reported-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1ktAAG-0002V2-VB@gemulon.postgresql.org
2020-12-26doc: fix SGML markup for pg_alterckey from commit 62afb42a7fBruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: master
2020-04-12Rename pg_validatebackup to pg_verifybackup.Robert Haas
Also, use "verify" rather than "validate" to refer to the process being undertaken here. Per discussion, that is a more appropriate term. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/172c9d9b-1d0a-1b94-1456-376b1e017322@2ndquadrant.com Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobLgMh6p8FmLbj_rv9Uhd7tPrLnAyLgGd2SoSj=qD-bVg@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-03Generate backup manifests for base backups, and validate them.Robert Haas
A manifest is a JSON document which includes (1) the file name, size, last modification time, and an optional checksum for each file backed up, (2) timelines and LSNs for whatever WAL will need to be replayed to make the backup consistent, and (3) a checksum for the manifest itself. By default, we use CRC-32C when checksumming data files, because we are trying to detect corruption and user error, not foil an adversary. However, pg_basebackup and the server-side BASE_BACKUP command now have options to select a different algorithm, so users wanting a cryptographic hash function can select SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, or SHA-512. Users not wanting file checksums at all can disable them, or disable generating of the backup manifest altogether. Using a cryptographic hash function in place of CRC-32C consumes significantly more CPU cycles, which may slow down backups in some cases. A new tool called pg_validatebackup can validate a backup against the manifest. If no checksums are present, it can still check that the right files exist and that they have the expected sizes. If checksums are present, it can also verify that each file has the expected checksum. Additionally, it calls pg_waldump to verify that the expected WAL files are present and parseable. Only plain format backups can be validated directly, but tar format backups can be validated after extracting them. Robert Haas, with help, ideas, review, and testing from David Steele, Stephen Frost, Andrew Dunstan, Rushabh Lathia, Suraj Kharage, Tushar Ahuja, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Mark Dilger, Davinder Singh, Jeevan Chalke, Amit Kapila, Andres Freund, and Noah Misch. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZV8dw1H2bzZ9xkKwdrk8+XYa+DC9H=F7heO2zna5T6qg@mail.gmail.com
2019-03-13Rename pg_verify_checksums to pg_checksumsMichael Paquier
The current tool name is too restrictive and focuses only on verifying checksums. As more options to control checksums for an offline cluster are planned to be added, switch to a more generic name. Documentation as well as all past references to the tool are updated. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Michael Banck, Fabien Coelho, Seigei Kornilov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181221201616.GD4974@nighthawk.caipicrew.dd-dns.de
2018-06-20Move pg_verify_checksum docs to Server utilsMagnus Hagander
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2018-04-15Fix build of pg_verify_checksum docsMagnus Hagander
They were accidentally excluded when reverting the backend online checksum functionality, and since they weren't built the incorrect reference to a removed section also did not trigger a problem. Author: Christoph Berg
2018-04-12Revert MERGE patchSimon Riggs
This reverts commits d204ef63776b8a00ca220adec23979091564e465, 83454e3c2b28141c0db01c7d2027e01040df5249 and a few more commits thereafter (complete list at the end) related to MERGE feature. While the feature was fully functional, with sufficient test coverage and necessary documentation, it was felt that some parts of the executor and parse-analyzer can use a different design and it wasn't possible to do that in the available time. So it was decided to revert the patch for PG11 and retry again in the future. Thanks again to all reviewers and bug reporters. List of commits reverted, in reverse chronological order: f1464c5380 Improve parse representation for MERGE ddb4158579 MERGE syntax diagram correction 530e69e59b Allow cpluspluscheck to pass by renaming variable 01b88b4df5 MERGE minor errata 3af7b2b0d4 MERGE fix variable warning in non-assert builds a5d86181ec MERGE INSERT allows only one VALUES clause 4b2d44031f MERGE post-commit review 4923550c20 Tab completion for MERGE aa3faa3c7a WITH support in MERGE 83454e3c2b New files for MERGE d204ef6377 MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016 Author: Pavan Deolasee Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
2018-04-09Revert "Allow on-line enabling and disabling of data checksums"Magnus Hagander
This reverts the backend sides of commit 1fde38beaa0c3e66c340efc7cc0dc272d6254bb0. I have, at least for now, left the pg_verify_checksums tool in place, as this tool can be very valuable without the rest of the patch as well, and since it's a read-only tool that only runs when the cluster is down it should be a lot safer.
2018-04-05Allow on-line enabling and disabling of data checksumsMagnus Hagander
This makes it possible to turn checksums on in a live cluster, without the previous need for dump/reload or logical replication (and to turn it off). Enabling checkusm starts a background process in the form of a launcher/worker combination that goes through the entire database and recalculates checksums on each and every page. Only when all pages have been checksummed are they fully enabled in the cluster. Any failure of the process will revert to checksums off and the process has to be started. This adds a new WAL record that indicates the state of checksums, so the process works across replicated clusters. Authors: Magnus Hagander and Daniel Gustafsson Review: Tomas Vondra, Michael Banck, Heikki Linnakangas, Andrey Borodin
2018-04-03MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016Simon Riggs
MERGE performs actions that modify rows in the target table using a source table or query. MERGE provides a single SQL statement that can conditionally INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE rows a task that would other require multiple PL statements. e.g. MERGE INTO target AS t USING source AS s ON t.tid = s.sid WHEN MATCHED AND t.balance > s.delta THEN UPDATE SET balance = t.balance - s.delta WHEN MATCHED THEN DELETE WHEN NOT MATCHED AND s.delta > 0 THEN INSERT VALUES (s.sid, s.delta) WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN DO NOTHING; MERGE works with regular and partitioned tables, including column and row security enforcement, as well as support for row, statement and transition triggers. MERGE is optimized for OLTP and is parameterizable, though also useful for large scale ETL/ELT. MERGE is not intended to be used in preference to existing single SQL commands for INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE since there is some overhead. MERGE can be used statically from PL/pgSQL. MERGE does not yet support inheritance, write rules, RETURNING clauses, updatable views or foreign tables. MERGE follows SQL Standard per the most recent SQL:2016. Includes full tests and documentation, including full isolation tests to demonstrate the concurrent behavior. This version written from scratch in 2017 by Simon Riggs, using docs and tests originally written in 2009. Later work from Pavan Deolasee has been both complex and deep, leaving the lead author credit now in his hands. Extensive discussion of concurrency from Peter Geoghegan, with thanks for the time and effort contributed. Various issues reported via sqlsmith by Andreas Seltenreich Authors: Pavan Deolasee, Simon Riggs Reviewer: Peter Geoghegan, Amit Langote, Tomas Vondra, Simon Riggs Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jKitBSrB7oTgT9CY2i1ObfOt36z0XMraQc+Xrz8QB0nXA@mail.gmail.com https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkJdBuxj9PO=2QaO9-3h3xGbQPZ34kJH=HukRekwM-GZg@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-02Revert "Modified files for MERGE"Simon Riggs
This reverts commit 354f13855e6381d288dfaa52bcd4f2cb0fd4a5eb.
2018-04-02Modified files for MERGESimon Riggs
2017-11-30SQL proceduresPeter Eisentraut
This adds a new object type "procedure" that is similar to a function but does not have a return type and is invoked by the new CALL statement instead of SELECT or similar. This implementation is aligned with the SQL standard and compatible with or similar to other SQL implementations. This commit adds new commands CALL, CREATE/ALTER/DROP PROCEDURE, as well as ALTER/DROP ROUTINE that can refer to either a function or a procedure (or an aggregate function, as an extension to SQL). There is also support for procedures in various utility commands such as COMMENT and GRANT, as well as support in pg_dump and psql. Support for defining procedures is available in all the languages supplied by the core distribution. While this commit is mainly syntax sugar around existing functionality, future features will rely on having procedures as a separate object type. Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-11-23Convert documentation to DocBook XMLPeter Eisentraut
Since some preparation work had already been done, the only source changes left were changing empty-element tags like <xref linkend="foo"> to <xref linkend="foo"/>, and changing the DOCTYPE. The source files are still named *.sgml, but they are actually XML files now. Renaming could be considered later. In the build system, the intermediate step to convert from SGML to XML is removed. Everything is build straight from the source files again. The OpenSP (or the old SP) package is no longer needed. The documentation toolchain instructions are updated and are much simpler now. Peter Eisentraut, Alexander Lakhin, Jürgen Purtz
2017-03-24Implement multivariate n-distinct coefficientsAlvaro Herrera
Add support for explicitly declared statistic objects (CREATE STATISTICS), allowing collection of statistics on more complex combinations that individual table columns. Companion commands DROP STATISTICS and ALTER STATISTICS ... OWNER TO / SET SCHEMA / RENAME are added too. All this DDL has been designed so that more statistic types can be added later on, such as multivariate most-common-values and multivariate histograms between columns of a single table, leaving room for permitting columns on multiple tables, too, as well as expressions. This commit only adds support for collection of n-distinct coefficient on user-specified sets of columns in a single table. This is useful to estimate number of distinct groups in GROUP BY and DISTINCT clauses; estimation errors there can cause over-allocation of memory in hashed aggregates, for instance, so it's a worthwhile problem to solve. A new special pseudo-type pg_ndistinct is used. (num-distinct estimation was deemed sufficiently useful by itself that this is worthwhile even if no further statistic types are added immediately; so much so that another version of essentially the same functionality was submitted by Kyotaro Horiguchi: https://postgr.es/m/20150828.173334.114731693.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp though this commit does not use that code.) Author: Tomas Vondra. Some code rework by Álvaro. Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed, David Rowley, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Jeff Janes, Ideriha Takeshi Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/543AFA15.4080608@fuzzy.cz https://postgr.es/m/20170320190220.ixlaueanxegqd5gr@alvherre.pgsql
2017-03-23Remove createlang and droplangPeter Eisentraut
They have been deprecated since PostgreSQL 9.1. Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2017-02-09Rename user-facing tools with "xlog" in the name to say "wal".Robert Haas
This means pg_receivexlog because pg_receivewal, pg_resetxlog becomes pg_resetwal, and pg_xlogdump becomes pg_waldump.
2017-01-20Logical replicationPeter Eisentraut
- Add PUBLICATION catalogs and DDL - Add SUBSCRIPTION catalog and DDL - Define logical replication protocol and output plugin - Add logical replication workers From: Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
2016-03-24Support CREATE ACCESS METHODAlvaro Herrera
This enables external code to create access methods. This is useful so that extensions can add their own access methods which can be formally tracked for dependencies, so that DROP operates correctly. Also, having explicit support makes pg_dump work correctly. Currently only index AMs are supported, but we expect different types to be added in the future. Authors: Alexander Korotkov, Petr Jelínek Reviewed-By: Teodor Sigaev, Petr Jelínek, Jim Nasby Commitfest-URL: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/9/353/ Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAPpHfdsXwZmojm6Dx+TJnpYk27kT4o7Ri6X_4OSWcByu1Rm+VA@mail.gmail.com
2015-04-26Add transforms featurePeter Eisentraut
This provides a mechanism for specifying conversions between SQL data types and procedural languages. As examples, there are transforms for hstore and ltree for PL/Perl and PL/Python. reviews by Pavel Stěhule and Andres Freund
2015-04-21Move pg_xlogdump from contrib/ to src/bin/Peter Eisentraut
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2015-04-21Move pg_test_timing from contrib/ to src/bin/Peter Eisentraut
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2015-04-20Move pg_test_fsync from contrib/ to src/bin/Peter Eisentraut
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2015-04-14Move pg_upgrade from contrib/ to src/bin/Peter Eisentraut
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2015-04-13Move pgbench from contrib/ to src/bin/Peter Eisentraut
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2015-04-12Move pg_archivecleanup from contrib/ to src/bin/Peter Eisentraut
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2015-03-23Add pg_rewind, for re-synchronizing a master server after failback.Heikki Linnakangas
Earlier versions of this tool were available (and still are) on github. Thanks to Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera, Peter Eisentraut, Amit Kapila, and Satoshi Nagayasu for review.
2014-09-19Row-Level Security Policies (RLS)Stephen Frost
Building on the updatable security-barrier views work, add the ability to define policies on tables to limit the set of rows which are returned from a query and which are allowed to be added to a table. Expressions defined by the policy for filtering are added to the security barrier quals of the query, while expressions defined to check records being added to a table are added to the with-check options of the query. New top-level commands are CREATE/ALTER/DROP POLICY and are controlled by the table owner. Row Security is able to be enabled and disabled by the owner on a per-table basis using ALTER TABLE .. ENABLE/DISABLE ROW SECURITY. Per discussion, ROW SECURITY is disabled on tables by default and must be enabled for policies on the table to be used. If no policies exist on a table with ROW SECURITY enabled, a default-deny policy is used and no records will be visible. By default, row security is applied at all times except for the table owner and the superuser. A new GUC, row_security, is added which can be set to ON, OFF, or FORCE. When set to FORCE, row security will be applied even for the table owner and superusers. When set to OFF, row security will be disabled when allowed and an error will be thrown if the user does not have rights to bypass row security. Per discussion, pg_dump sets row_security = OFF by default to ensure that exports and backups will have all data in the table or will error if there are insufficient privileges to bypass row security. A new option has been added to pg_dump, --enable-row-security, to ask pg_dump to export with row security enabled. A new role capability, BYPASSRLS, which can only be set by the superuser, is added to allow other users to be able to bypass row security using row_security = OFF. Many thanks to the various individuals who have helped with the design, particularly Robert Haas for his feedback. Authors include Craig Ringer, KaiGai Kohei, Adam Brightwell, Dean Rasheed, with additional changes and rework by me. Reviewers have included all of the above, Greg Smith, Jeff McCormick, and Robert Haas.
2014-07-10Implement IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA.Tom Lane
This command provides an automated way to create foreign table definitions that match remote tables, thereby reducing tedium and chances for error. In this patch, we provide the necessary core-server infrastructure and implement the feature fully in the postgres_fdw foreign-data wrapper. Other wrappers will throw a "feature not supported" error until/unless they are updated. Ronan Dunklau and Michael Paquier, additional work by me
2014-03-18Documentation for logical decoding.Robert Haas
Craig Ringer, Andres Freund, Christian Kruse, with edits by me.
2013-12-18Add ALTER SYSTEM command to edit the server configuration file.Tatsuo Ishii
Patch contributed by Amit Kapila. Reviewed by Hari Babu, Masao Fujii, Boszormenyi Zoltan, Andres Freund, Greg Smith and others.
2013-11-15doc: Restore proper alphabetical order.Robert Haas
Colin 't Hart
2013-03-04Add a materialized view relations.Kevin Grittner
A materialized view has a rule just like a view and a heap and other physical properties like a table. The rule is only used to populate the table, references in queries refer to the materialized data. This is a minimal implementation, but should still be useful in many cases. Currently data is only populated "on demand" by the CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW and REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW statements. It is expected that future releases will add incremental updates with various timings, and that a more refined concept of defining what is "fresh" data will be developed. At some point it may even be possible to have queries use a materialized in place of references to underlying tables, but that requires the other above-mentioned features to be working first. Much of the documentation work by Robert Haas. Review by Noah Misch, Thom Brown, Robert Haas, Marko Tiikkaja Security review by KaiGai Kohei, with a decision on how best to implement sepgsql still pending.
2013-02-09Add support for ALTER RULE ... RENAME TO.Tom Lane
Ali Dar, reviewed by Dean Rasheed.
2013-01-23pg_isreadyRobert Haas
New command-line utility to test whether a server is ready to accept connections. Phil Sorber, reviewed by Michael Paquier and Peter Eisentraut
2012-07-18Syntax support and documentation for event triggers.Robert Haas
They don't actually do anything yet; that will get fixed in a follow-on commit. But this gets the basic infrastructure in place, including CREATE/ALTER/DROP EVENT TRIGGER; support for COMMENT, SECURITY LABEL, and ALTER EXTENSION .. ADD/DROP EVENT TRIGGER; pg_dump and psql support; and documentation for the anticipated initial feature set. Dimitri Fontaine, with review and a bunch of additional hacking by me. Thom Brown extensively reviewed earlier versions of this patch set, but there's not a whole lot of that code left in this commit, as it turns out.
2012-04-06Fix some typos in the documentationPeter Eisentraut
Thom Brown
2011-10-26Implement streaming xlog for backup toolsMagnus Hagander
Add option for parallel streaming of the transaction log while a base backup is running, to get the logfiles before the server has removed them. Also add a tool called pg_receivexlog, which streams the transaction log into files, creating a log archive without having to wait for segments to complete, thus decreasing the window of data loss without having to waste space using archive_timeout. This works best in combination with archive_command - suggested usage docs etc coming later.
2011-09-10Remove double-quoting of table names in clusterdb. BACKWARD COMPABILITYBruce Momjian
BREAKAGE. Remove double-quoting of index/table names in reindexdb. BACKWARD COMPABILITY BREAKAGE. Document thate user/database names are preserved with double-quoting by command-line tools like vacuumdb.
2011-02-12DDL support for collationsPeter Eisentraut
- collowner field - CREATE COLLATION - ALTER COLLATION - DROP COLLATION - COMMENT ON COLLATION - integration with extensions - pg_dump support for the above - dependency management - psql tab completion - psql \dO command
2011-02-08Core support for "extensions", which are packages of SQL objects.Tom Lane
This patch adds the server infrastructure to support extensions. There is still one significant loose end, namely how to make it play nice with pg_upgrade, so I am not yet committing the changes that would make all the contrib modules depend on this feature. In passing, fix a disturbingly large amount of breakage in AlterObjectNamespace() and callers. Dimitri Fontaine, reviewed by Anssi Kääriäinen, Itagaki Takahiro, Tom Lane, and numerous others
2011-01-23Add pg_basebackup tool for streaming base backupsMagnus Hagander
This tool makes it possible to do the pg_start_backup/ copy files/pg_stop_backup step in a single command. There are still some steps to be done before this is a complete backup solution, such as the ability to stream the required WAL logs, but it's still usable, and could do with some buildfarm coverage. In passing, make the checkpoint request optionally fast instead of hardcoding it. Magnus Hagander, reviewed by Fujii Masao and Dimitri Fontaine
2011-01-02Basic foreign table support.Robert Haas
Foreign tables are a core component of SQL/MED. This commit does not provide a working SQL/MED infrastructure, because foreign tables cannot yet be queried. Support for foreign table scans will need to be added in a future patch. However, this patch creates the necessary system catalog structure, syntax support, and support for ancillary operations such as COMMENT and SECURITY LABEL. Shigeru Hanada, heavily revised by Robert Haas